A research statement describes your accomplishments and sketches your research plans.
Keep your audience in mind. What do they care about? What technical language do and don’t they understand?
What thread unites all the projects you’ve undertaken? Cast the key projects in the form of a story—a research program. What vision underlies the program?
Writing is rewriting, a saying goes.
I gave all my Apple wealth away because wealth and power are not what I live for. I have a lot of fun and happiness. I funded a lot of important museums and arts groups in San Jose, the city of my birth, and they named a street after me for being good. I now speak publicly and have risen to the top. I have no idea how much I have but after speaking for 20 years it might be $10M plus a couple of homes. I never look for any type of tax dodge. I earn money from my labor and pay something like 55% combined tax on it. I am the happiest person ever. Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about Happiness, which is Smiles minus Frowns. I developed these philosophies when I was 18-20 years old and I never sold out.